![]() You know, power that’s been preserved from the ancient world. He has said about the planning, “it sort of became my project because I was one of the first people in the band who was on the trip of playing at places of power. Phil led the charge to get the Dead to play at the Great Pyramid. He also came out a few other times with the band over the years, perhaps most memorably on Decemwhen, along with Mickey, he entranced the crowd at the Oakland Coliseum during Drums. El Din played the tune an additional six times with the Dead in the US. The Dead and him ended up playing Ollin Arageed all three nights at the pyramids. With the Dead’s visit to Egypt in mind, he composed Ollin Arageed for the performances. American audiences got their first introduction to him with his appearance at the 1964 Newport Folk Festival. Hamza El Din was a Nubian Egyptian oud and tar player and vocalist. It truly was a special experience, which is clear from the great music, pictures, and the video – included on the Dead release Rocking the Cradle: Egypt 1978. The highest honor any musician could hope to achieve. How totally mind-blowing is this? In the history of mankind, will there ever be something quite like this? A bunch of rock musicians going to a completely different culture out of the blue, throwing a concert, and jamming with local musicians from this culture – speaking their musical language, live, onstage, in the moment? Truly un-fxcking-believable. But what really gets us every time is just thinking about what a mind-blowing experience it must have been to have been there, amongst the pyramids at Giza and listening to the Grateful Dead play. The rest of the set is pretty hot as well, with a slightly slower pace to things. Then everyone struggles a bit with the segue into Fire, but eventually gets it going, leading to a slow, heavy, mesmerizing version unlike any other. ![]() ![]() The Ollin Arageed is magical with the mix of Egyptian music and good old Grateful Dead jamming. But the real highlight of the evening is the beginning of the second set as the band jammed Ollin Arageed into Fire On The Mountain alongside Hamza El Din. The first set is all quite tasty with a truly top-shelf Candyman. All three of the Egypt shows in mid-September 1978 were good, but the final night seems to have just a little more to it. But for our Dead of the Day we head out to the last night of the epic three-night run at the Giza Plateau in the shadow of the Great Pyramid and so many other antiquities in Egypt. ![]() There are a bunch of shows from this day in Dead history, including quite a number of 80s and 90s MSG nights and a really hot one from all the way back in 1966. ![]()
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